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A dealer bought an item at 10% discount on its original price. He sold it at 35 % more than the original price. What percentage profit did he get?

A starts a business, after 6 months B also join him with Rs.4500 and after 2 months of B s joining C also join them with Rs.4500. If A gets approx. Rs 4900 out of total annual profit of Rs. 10,000 then find the approximate value of initial investment of A.

A shopkeeper marked an article 75% above the cost price and sold it after a discount of 50%. Find the cost price of the article if he had a loss of Rs. 156.

A dishonest dealer marks up the price of an article by 15% and gave a discount of 20%. He also uses 900gm instead of 1000gm. Find his profit percent.

Rahul purchased 20 dozens of toys at the rate of Rs. 375 per dozen. He sold each one of them at the rate of Rs. 33. What was his percentage profit?

Ram sells a car to Mohan at a profit of 16% and Mohan sells it to Shyam at a profit of 25%. How much profit% Ram would have got if he had sold the car directly to Shyam at the price Shyam bought it?

A shopkeeper has 11 books of same cost price. He sells the first book at certain price, then he sells second book at a price which is 1 less than the selling price of first book and then he sells third book at a price which is 1 less than the selling price of second book. Following this pattern, he sold all 11 books. If he sells sixth book at its cost price. Find the overall percent profit or loss on selling all 11 books.

A man buys a table and a chair for 500. He sells the table at a loss of 10 % and the chair at a gain of 10 %. He still gain 10 on the whole. The cost price of chair in rupees is

Arun buys one kilogram of apples for Rs . 120 and sells it to Swati gaining 25 %. Swati sells it to Divya and Divya again sells it for Rs. 198, making a profit of 10 %. What is the profit percentage made by Swati?

A trader purchased a gift box for Rs. 150. What should be the marked price on the gift box so that after allowing a discount of 10 %, he makes a profit of 10 %?

If the selling price of a product is multiplied by 2, the resulting profit is 6 times the original profit. What is the original profit percentage?

When a shopkeeper sells an item for Rs 230, he loses 20 percent. If he sells the item for Rs. 339.5, what percentage of profit will he make?

A and B invested 1/2 and 1/3 of the total capital respectively, the remaining part C invested. If there is a profit of Rs. 9696 at the end of the year, then what is the profit of B?

A shopkeeper gains 20 percent by giving a discount of 10 percent of the marked price of a toy. If he had given a discount of 20 percent, then what would be his profit percentage?

Rekha bought a scooter for Rs 20,000 and sold it for Rs 22,000. What is the profit percentage?

A sells a bicycle to B at a profit of 20%. B sells it to C at a profit of 25%. If C pays Rs. 225/- for it, the cost price of the bicycle for A is:

A tradesman marks his goods at 20 % above the cost price. He allows his customers a discount of 8% on marked price. Find out his profit percent.

Oranges are bought at 7 for Rs. 3. At what rate per hundred must they be sold to gain 33 % ?

A house and a shop were sold for Rs. 1 lakh each, In this transaction, the house sale resulted into 20 % loss whereas the shop sale into 20 % profit. The entire transaction resulted in:

An article is sold at 5 % profit. The ratio of selling price and cost price will be

By selling an article for Rs. 700 a man lost 30 %. At what price should he have sold it to gain 30%?

If an article is sold at 200 % profit then the ratio of its cost price to its selling price will be

A man purchased a bed sheet for Rs. 450 and sold it at again of 10 % calculated on the selling price. The selling price of the bedsheets was

An article is sold at a loss of 20 %. It yields Rs. 60 more when it is sold at a gain of 20 %. The cost price of the article is

A shopkeeper had 2000 kgs of rice. He sold a part of it at 11% profit and the rest at 17% profit, so that he made a total profit 15.2%. How much rice (in kgs) did he sell at 17% profit?

By selling a pen for Rs 105 there is a loss of 30%. At what price (in Rs) the pen must be sold in order to gain 30%?

If 3 toys are sold at the cost price of 4 toys of the same kind, the profit will be:

A fruit seller had some pineapples. He sells 30% of pineapples and still has 350 pineapples. Originally he had how many pineapples?

If a vendor sells apples at Rs 170 per kg he suffers 15 % loss. If he sells at Rs 230 per kg, then what is his profit percentage?

A trade buys 800 kgs of tomatoes for Rs 7200. 10% tomatoes are damaged in transportation. At what rate (Rs / kg) should he sell the rest earn 30 % profit?

If the profit on selling an article for Rs. 579 is the same as the loss on selling it for Rs. 337, then find the profit percent if its selling price is Rs. 687.

If a trader finds out that his profit is equal to 20 percent of the selling price, then his actual profit is.

A person has 12 bananas for Rs 24. Sell in So he got the benefit of 25 percent. How many bananas he buy in Rs. 40?

The cost price of a radio is Rs. 600. The 5% of the cost price is charged towards transportation. After adding that, If net profit to be made is 15%, then the selling price of the radio must be

A piece of land came to a person through three middlemen each gaining 20%. If the person purchased the land for Rs. 3,45,600 the original cost of the land was:

The cost price of an article is Rs x. It is marked up by 200%. It is sold at Rs. 540 after giving 25% discount. What is the value of x (in Rs)?

A trader sold an article at profit of 20%. Had he bought that article at 60% less price and sold it at Rs 90 less, then he would have gained 50%. What is the value (in Rs) of cost price?

By what fraction selling price ( S.P. ) must be multiplied to get the cost price ( C.P. ) if the loss is 20%?

Last year Mr. A bought two paintings. This year he sold them for Rs. 20,000 each. On one, he made a 25 % profit and of the other he had a 25 % loss. Then his net profit or loss is

A & B jointly made a profit of Rs. 1650 and they decided to share it such that 1/3 of A's profit is equal to 2/5 of B's profit. Then profit of B is

A loss of 19% gets converted into a profit of 17% when the selling price is increased by Rs. 162. The cost price of the article is

A merchant has 1000 kg sugar, some part of which he sells at 8 % profit and the rest at 18 % profit. He gains 14 % on the whole. The quantity sold at 8 % profit is:

A shopkeeper sold his goods at half the list price and thus lost 20 %. If he had sold on the listed price, his gain percentage would be

A manufacturer fixes his selling price at $$33{1 over3} % $$ over the cost of production. If the cost of production goes up by 12 % and manufacturer raises his selling price by 10%, his percentage profit is

An article is sold at a profit of 25 %. If the selling price is doubled, the profit % will be:

A man sells an article at 5 % above its cost price. If he had bought it at 5 % less than what he had paid for it and sold it at Rs. 2 less, he would have gained 10 %. The cost price of the article is

There would be a 10 % loss. if rice is sold at 54 per kg. To earn a profit of 20 %, the price of rice per kg will be

On selling 17 balls at Rs. 720 there is a loss equal to the cost price of 5 balls. The cost price of a ball is: